A Willow Creek Flume

Lassen Mining Company’s flume, 1927.

subscriber wanted to know about an old abandoned flume at Willow Creek near Hayden Hill. According to the 1938 adjudication report of Ash Creek and its tributaries had this information:

”Diversion 87 is that of the Lassen Mining Company Ditch on Willow Creek. This diversion has a low rock dam which is used to divert to the south side of Willow Creek into an earth ditch and wood box flume three-fourths mile in length.  The ditch is used to transport water to a small power plant. Power is generated to pump domestic water to the Hayden Hill mine. The ditch has  a capacity of 3.5 cubic feet per second which is the average available operating head during the summer months when the entire stream is diverted into the ditch.”

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